Something caused a 49-year-old Salisbury woman to say, I want a divorce.

She and her husband had been a married for 29 years, according to police and media reports. Well, somewhere in Rowan County, there's another wife he's been married to for four years.

Lt. Terry Agner told WBTV that a 49-year-old Salisbury woman came to the Sheriff's office to report that she was seeking a divorce from her husband of 29 years.

That's when investigators say she discovered that her husband had married another woman in 2006.

The case has been forwarded to detectives for investigation.

It seems like every year some marriage ends because the husband has more than one wife — which is illegal people!

In 2008 a Cramerton man was trying to divorce his two wives and got busted.

Police have arrested a Cramerton man on bigamy charges.

Authorities told the Gaston Gazette that Robert Cribb married a woman named Teresa Bradley while he was still being married to his wife, Lisa Cribb.Police said Robert married the other woman so that she could legally leave South Carolina despite being on probation, and police said he told them he is trying to get a divorce from both wives. Cribb has been released from jail on $10,000 bond.

There is even a police officer from this area who was caught up in bigamy.

A police officer in a North Carolina town has been fired after he was charged with bigamy for getting married without divorcing his first wife.

Monroe police chief Debra Duncan said Tuesday that Darryl Howard was charged and then released on $1,000. Howard's court date is Dec. 4.

Duncan says the former officer has a wife in Monroe whom he married in 1986. He later married a woman in without getting a divorce. The officer was charged after the second wife tipped police.

Howard has worked at the Monroe department since 2002.

Duncan said the case shows that police officers are not above the law.

Some of you single ladies out there should be glad you didn't run across one of these multiple-marrying guys to get a ring put on it.

A Charleston deputy is in the worst kind of trouble right now, he's accused of rape.

Charleston is one of the cities Creative Loafing highlighted in our summer guide and is a destination trip for people in our area. So, that makes this allegation of rape by a law enforcement officer scary and damaging.

Here's what allegedly happened:

Multiple media outlets reported that police arrested 25-year-old Pressley LeGrande Gaskins and charged him with first-degree criminal sexual conduct and kidnapping after he surrendered to investigators Tuesday.

Charleston sheriff's Chief Inspector Mark Fields says Gaskins has been placed on administrative leave without pay until the case is resolved. Gaskins had been with the department for three years.

Affidavits say the woman was held against her will and Gaskins repeatedly assaulted her Sept. 23.

The woman told police she had been drinking at a bar and met the officer, who followed her when she went out to smoke.

The problem in cases like these is that most of the public will automatically side with the law enforcement officer. How else can Charlotte explain how former Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Officer Marcus Jackson got away with his alleged crimes for so long?

According to RAINN, an anti-assault organization:

Sexual assault is one of the most under reported crimes, with 60% still being left unreported.

It's easy to see why when stories about law enforcement officers accused of sexual assault keep popping into the headlines.

That baby doesn't look like you and you're not trying to pay child support for 18 years and on that child's birthday you find out you are not the father.

Believe it or not, the state doesn't want that to happen to you either. The Charlotte Observer is reporting that Mecklenburg County is offering paternity testing for all men in North Carolina questioning if the child is theirs or not.

The genetic testing will be offered from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Oct. 5 to 7 at the Mecklenburg County Child Support Enforcement Office, which is located at 5800 Executive Center Dr. in east Charlotte.

Christy Stacy, a child support supervisor, said the test, which includes a DNA sample, may take about 15 minutes, and potential fathers need to bring photo identification with them. The child and mother do not need to be present, but their DNA samples will be needed to complete the test.

Stacy said the event will be open to men alleged to be the fathers of children in North Carolina. If the child doesn’t live in Mecklenburg, she said information would be forwarded to the child support office where the child lives.

Stacy said results from the test should be available in three to four weeks. If the result is positive — meaning the child, father and mother match — there will be a charge of up to $90.

You better be sure that you're not the father if you take part in this testing — at the child support office — because I'm sure you have to give all of your information if you want to participate and if you are the father, they're going to get you.

I just wonder if any of this will be going on when the test results come back: